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The number two paid app on iOS is based on a $10 GameSalad template
- tlack 13y agoIs there a good summary out there of all the ways black hats try to game the Apple Appstore?
- Tloewald 13y agoMy casual experience with the app store was that when I put my game up for sale I got contacted by people offering me good reviews, traffic, etc., which I turned down. (I thought my game was pretty good and would sell itself.) I got a bunch of viciously negative reviews which were always updated whenever I released a new version. It seems like the black-hattery is pretty straightforward -- brute force.
- joeguilmette 13y agowhat's the name of the game? i'll give it a shot!
- Tloewald 13y agoManta 2010 -- but it's sorely in need of an update
- CodeWithCoffee 13y agoThis article summarise one of the techniques that has been used recently: http://www.tuaw.com/2014/01/10/the-strange-shady-world-of-1-000-ios-apps/ http://www.tuaw.com/2014/01/10/the-strange-shady-world-of-1-....
- Shalle 13y agolooks a bit like the "Bouncer" game for Nokia. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xDwdTYUzkHk/UASnQJj-cuI/AAAAAAAADmE/tVrfheGDa5Y/s400/bounce-classic-image-02.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xDwdTYUzkHk/UASnQJj-cuI/AAAAAAAADm...
- manojlds 13y agoIt was called Bounce, and Rovio had made a couple of titles for Nokia - http://www.rovio.com/en/our-work/games/archived-games http://www.rovio.com/en/our-work/games/archived-games
- acchow 13y ago97 reviews, 3 star average rating. Not sure what the rating distribution is, but probably almost half (40) of the reviews are legitimate. Assuming a 10% review rate, this game probably has 400 legitimate downloads - $400 revenue. Not bad.
- bignoggins 13y agoThe #2 paid app gets around 5-10k downloads per day so he is making a lot more than $400
- kosei 13y agoI have seen numbers significantly above 5-10K downloads per day for a #2 paid app.
- kranner 13y agoIt only has ratings in the US, UK and AU stores. Not a single rating elsewhere. Pretty fishy. Also the first review in both the US and UK stores says "better than flappy birds". (Note the plural)